/*
Copyright (C) 2005 Johan Maasing johan at zoom.nu

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
package nu.zoom.swing.desktop;

/**
 * Shows an error dialog to the user. This is a convinience class that can be
 * used to show an explanatory message and the exception message. This class is
 * thread safe and may be invoked by any thread (must not be the swing event
 * thread).
 * 
 * @version $Revision: 1.3 $
 * @author $Author: johan $
 */
public interface ErrorReporter
{

	/**
	 * Show an error dialog to the user.
	 * 
	 * @param e
	 *            The exception that was thrown.
	 */
	public void reportError(Exception e);

	/**
	 * Show an error dialog to the user.
	 * 
	 * @param message
	 *            The text to show the user.
	 */
	public void reportError(String message);

	/**
	 * Show an error dialog to the user.
	 * 
	 * @param message
	 *            The text to show the user.
	 * @param e
	 *            The exception that was thrown.
	 */
	public void reportError(String message, Exception e);
}